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11 Website Design Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

These best practices serve as a foundation for upgrading your website to be compatible with the Social Web and are then elaborated upon in the upcoming webinar How Nonprofits Can Successfully Utilize Online Fundraising and e-Newsletters. Have a Simple, Visually Powerful Web 2.0 Icons and buttons have strong appeal and impact in Web 2.0

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Ask Your Lawmaker Widget

NTEN

I love widgets. The idea of having portable, dynamic, and (often) free web content simultaneously on your own site and on your friends' and supporters' sites and blogs excites me. There's so much potential for fundraising, advocacy, and general outreach. . You can even narrow down your topic by issues just in your state. .

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Sneak Peak of New Facebook Nonprofit Use Research from Idealware

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These included website traffic, donations, email list size, and moving people to action (advocacy actions). Respondents reported the most success with using Facebook to direct new people to their websites, with more than 75% saying they’ve seen an increase in web traffic.

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10 Nonprofit Text Alert Campaigns

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They can opt-in by sending a Keyword (NONPROFITORGS) to a Short Code (41411) , or through a subscribe page/widget on a nonprofit’s website. The SEIU also uses more than just a subscribe web page to build their mobile list. The web page with subscribe functionality is secondary. Definitely a best practice! Related Links: 1.

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APIs for Social Media Integration and More: A Gentle Introduction for Nonprofits

NTEN

API stands for Application Program Interface, and has become known for, in large part, facilitating the Web 2.0 A prime example of what APIs can achieve with relative ease is optimizing content for web visitors based on location. Advocacy and Political Groups. What are APIs? So what is an API, really? There is an API for that.

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Guest Post by Allyson Kapin: Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Easy to Moderate* 9. Moderate* 10.

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11 Group Text Messaging Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

I am firm believer that social media will be the foundation of the Mobile Web and the book was written to help prepare nonprofits for the coming shift from desktop and social to social and mobile. For this reason, group text messaging is especially relevant to advocacy and activist organizations.

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